Nigeria: Massacre in Borno As Boko Haram Kills At Least 250 in Two Weeks

2 February 2014

Residents of the volatile Nigerian state of Borno are beginning to worry the more over an increasing spate of attacks and cold blooded killings by the extremist Boko Haram sect, as death toll on reported incidences, in the last two weeks, rose to over 250.

This human casualty figure was first of such recorded deaths within a very short period in Nigeria since the year 2000 episode in the Niger Deltan village of Adeje in which a damaged oil pipeline exploded, killing more than 250 people.

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